HARDWOOD RECORD 



Receipts. 



190T. 



Railroad. Eiver. 



Cars. Feet. 



January 9,721 52.000 



Feliniaiv 11,832 103,000 



March ". 14,331 127,000 



April 15,351 189,000 



May 16,827 250,000 



June 13,611 372,000 



Totals 81,573 1,093,000 



1908. 



January 8,218 8,000 



February 8,419 143,000 



March ". 8,880 142,000 



April 9.802 152,000 



May 9,803 355,000 



June 9,677 63,000 



Totals 54,680 863,000 



SnIPME-NTS. 



Railroad. Riyer. 



Cars. Feet. 



January 6,396 



February 6,948 17,000 



March ". 9,361 75,000 



April 10,223 164,000 



May 10,607 342,000 



June 9,293 356,000 



Totals 52.828 954,000 



1908. 



January 6,512 



February 6,531 



March 7,585 90,000 



April 7,597 140,000 



May 7,752 76,000 



Jurie 7,308 33,000 



Totals 43,285 339,000 



This shows a falling off of 26,893 cars in re- 

 ceipts by riyer for the first six months this 

 year, as compared with the first six months last 

 year, and a falling off of 230.n/)0 feet in the 

 receipts of lumber by riyer this year. It shows 

 a falling off in shipments of lumber of 9,543 

 cars by railroad and by riyer of 615.000 feet. 



The following is the amount of lumber meas- 

 ured and inspected by the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change of St. Louis during the month of June, 

 1908: „ ^ 



Feet. 



Quartered red oals 8.994 



Quartered white oak 55,360 



Plain red oak 8,692 



Plain white oak 26,662 



Cottonwood 17,278 



Cypress 218,034 



cfdar 8.127 



Ssr ■••.■.■.•.•.•.■.•.•.•.■.•.•.•.•.•.■.:::::::::: i6,ii 



Ash 15,566 



Yellow pine 11,390 



Total 386.954 



George F. Cottrill and wife left for Atlantic 

 City early in July for a two weeks' visit. They 

 will then go to Asbury Park, N. J., for a longer 

 stay. 



J. S. Garetson. president of the Garetson- 

 Greason Lumber Company, recently left for Old 

 Mexico to be absent for seyeral weeks. His 

 family are at Chautauqua, N. Y.. for the sum- 

 mer. When Mr. Garetson returns from Old 

 Mexico he will join them for the balance of 



i:,. -lit ill jM. tor of the National Hardwood 

 Luiii' 1 A. . ■ i,iii..n. F. P. Southgate. was a 

 r.Mrhi ,1-11.1 iij St. Louis. He is making his 

 quaiuii.i, tutir ul the cities in which the asso- 

 ciation has inspectors. He was in St. Louis for 

 seyeral days. 



Mrs. Laura Uensiek, wife of William H. Hen- 

 siek of the Wilson-Uchcis-Rolfes Lumber Com- 

 pany, died recently. Besides the husband she 

 leayes two small children. 



G. W. Allport, manager of the lumber de- 

 partment of the Ozark Cooperage and Lumber 

 Company, is the father of a handsome baby girl. 

 His friends are showering congratulations upon 

 him. 



The Independent Lumber Company of this 

 city has gone out of business. 



itusiness is considerably I>ettcr than it was a 

 week or two ago, according to Theodore Plum- 

 mor. presideijt ..r tin- riummr-r I.umliir Com- 

 pany. 



good 



thi 



look 



he will not iirr.j.t ..f.l.'i-, milrss siiiUi.irtory 

 prices are obtained, It can safely be said that 



pre obtained for the orders booked. 



i;. II. Luehrmann, yice-president of the 

 Charl.s F. I.uebrmann. Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, rrpnrts business as haying started up 

 right well this month. June sales held their 

 own in comparison with the same month last 

 year. Prices are better, Mr. Luehrmann says, 

 on all items of hardwood. 



Inquiries and orders are coming in better 

 than they were a month ago, is the report made 

 by Charles Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz 

 Lumber Company. Prices are much better than 

 they haye been, owing to the scarcity of a 

 great many items on the list. 



L. M. Borgess, secretary of the Steele & Hib- 

 bard Lumber Company, spent the first week of 



this month in the city. li'- hml 1 ii ii|i in 



the Northwest on a selling: tii]' .ml .imi.' home 

 to spend the Fourth. lit- Im- u-'w ^..n. out 

 on another selling trip. II.- -.ii r. l.ii-in..ss has 

 been fairly good, with prices showing Improye- 

 ment. 



After being ill for seyeral weeks, E. W. 

 Blumer, sales manager of the Lothman Cypress 

 Company, is at his desk again. He repofts 

 that they haye been doing as well as could be 

 expected with the cypress market as quiet as 

 it has been. He has faith in the future, how- 

 eyer, and looks for better conditions Before 

 yery long. 



W. A. Bonsack of the Bonsack Lumber Com- 

 pany says the lumber market has been very 

 quiet, but is improving. Many items on the 

 hardwood list are quite scarce and they are 

 bringing good prices. 



A. G. Wetmore, president of the Southern 

 Hardwood Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn., 

 was in St. Louis a few days ago on his way 

 north on business. He spent the time here with 

 his selling agents, the F. C. Moore Lumber 

 Company, and placed some little business. He 

 stopped over again on his way home on the 3d 

 of July. Mr. Wetmore says that business is 

 quiet. His export trade, though, has held up 

 much better than the trade in this country. 

 Advices received by him from Europe are to 

 the effect that the foreign market Is glutted 

 with lumber because the lumbermen of this 

 country have been sending oyer so much lumber 

 for foreign dealers to sell. 



■Gus" Bush, secretary of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange of St. Louis, was called to Memphis, 

 Tenn., the first. of July because of the serious 

 illness of his mother. 



.Mrs. Caroline M. Ilibhard, wife of George E. 

 Hibbard, vice-president and general manager of 

 the Steele Ji Hibbard Lumber Company, died 

 Monday morning, June 22, after an illness of 

 two years. The funeral took place from the 

 residence of her aunt, Mrs. J. Adams. Mrs. 

 Ililjbard was the daughter of the late Tracy 

 Turner, a prominent St. Louis business man 

 liefore and during the civil war, and of Harriet 

 IJulies Turner, whose father, William Dukes, was 

 a well-known St. Louis contractor. Mrs. Hib- 

 bard had been married about twenty-two years 

 and was a woman of much beauty and of a 

 di-ii)osHi()ii that won her many friends. 



Lumber interests are much encouraged over 

 the fact that railroad shops, which have been 

 running on short time or were closed down alto- 

 gether, are resuming operations with full force 

 and on regular schedule. The railroads found 

 it necessary to economize during the period of 

 financial stringency and the dullness of business 

 which followed and the fact that they found 

 themselves handling an increase in business suf- 

 ficient to justify them In restoring the forces 

 which were temporarily laid off is accepted as 

 a most favorable feature. 



The Illinois Central has announced ofllclally 

 that It has put to work about 5,000 additional 

 men since July 1. The company has also In- 

 creased its force at some of Its northern plants. 



The St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) Kail- 

 way Company has reopened its shops at Pine 

 Bluff. These were cut down to very, limited 

 hours and the force was greatly reduced. The 

 Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain system is gradu- 

 ally increasing the number of employes at the 

 shops at Argenta and other points on the sys- 

 tem, and information received here from Meri- 

 dian. Miss., indicates that the shops of the 

 New Orleans & Northeastern have resumed on 

 full time after a shut down of some duration. 

 Another encouraging feature is that the South- 

 ern Railway Company has restored the cut of 

 10 per cent in wages of its employes which cov- 

 ered about four months. This became effective 

 July 1. 



Still another encouraging factor is to be 

 noted in the reopening of offices by the Missouri 

 I'aeific-Iron Mountain system, which found it 

 necessary to cut down operating expenses and 

 closed some of the smaller offices. Furthermore, 

 this road is increasing the number of freight 

 cars in use and it is announced that the Illinois 

 Central is distributing 15,000 empties which 

 have been idle for some time in order that they 

 may be available at proper points for the han- 

 dling of traffic offering. The Southern Railway. 

 Louisville & Nashville and all the other roads 

 operating in the Central South show a large 

 increase in the volume of business and, from a 

 railroad standpoint, conditions look a great 

 deal better than they have at any time since 

 the suspension of work last fall. It may be 

 noted in the same connection that much new 

 railrniid work which was abandoned at that 

 tliii.. U I.. iiiL- taken up again with a view to 



pii>liiii^ I iii|ili'tion as rapidly as possible. 



Till- ii|.|.li.- 11.. I ..nly to the Central South, but 

 p|.a.ii.:iil> I., .^•^y other part of the country. 

 \iM.iii.i in.i. \ lo the improvement of business 

 (.on.liii 11- iii:i\ l.o found in the splendid state- 

 ment mil. I'. I.y lanks in Little Rock, Memphis, 

 Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville and other points. 

 There is not a banking institution in .Memphis 

 which has not already declared or proposes to 

 declare quarterly or semi-annual dividends. Simi- 

 lar reports come from the other points men- 

 tioned. Furthermore, banks in Memphis have 

 an average of a'oout ?140 for every man, woman 

 and child on deposit, which is large enough to 

 show that the confidence which was so badly 

 impaired during the financial panic has l)een 

 entirely restored. The total deposits in Mem- 

 phis l)anks are about $27,000,000. and this com- 

 pares most favorably with other years at this 

 date. 



Lee Wilson & Co. are completing their veneer 

 mill at Wilson, Ark., and making rapid progress 

 on the planing mill. The latter will be com- 

 pleted and ready for operation in alwut ninety 

 days. The concern has announced its intention 

 of shutting down its big band mill at Wilson 

 July 15 for an indefinite period. It is expected 

 that the coniiiaiiy will 

 nor the vcn.- i .m.l pi.ni 

 days aft.r i 



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hardwood mauufacturcrs 



market, have announced their Intention of clos- 

 iug down their band mill in Memphis within the 

 next fortnight. They have about 2,000,000 feet 

 of timber yet to saw. but in view of the fact 

 that they are not doing any logging they prefer 

 to close down during the summer and saw the 

 remainder of this timber next fall. 



The Illinois Central and Southern railway 

 have abandoned operation of the Tennessee Cen- 

 tral and this road has been turned over to its 

 original owners. The two operating roads had 

 an option which expired July 1 and both of 

 them refused to exercise this. They said that 

 the use of the road had not proved as profitable 

 as they had anticipated and not enough so lo 

 Justify them in continuing. The abandonment 

 of this line has made it necessary for the Illi- 

 n.ils Central to increase lis force at Memphis. 

 W. v.. Downing will come to this city as assis- 



